A. D. 1467. - ♦^ 683 V 



therefor they reduced mofl: of the foreign coins current in Scotland to a 

 fmaller numerical value than they had lately fet upon them (January 

 1468). [Jcis Jac. Ill, cc. 22, 23, 29, and fee alfo 58.] 



November 24''' — The Englifli and the people of the Netherlands feel- 

 ing the bad effeds of turning the trade of the two countries into a cir- ,, 

 cuitous channel, the commercial intercourfe between them was now re- 

 vived, and regulated by a new treaty between King Edward and the ^% 

 duke of Burgundy, which was to be in force thirty years. The fubjeds 

 of both princes, whether dealers in wool, hides, or provifions, or other 

 articles, were to have free accefs by land or water with liberty to buy 

 and fell all kinds of merchandize, except warlike ftores, on paying the 

 duties, eftablifhed when commerce formerly had free courfe between ^,_- 



the two countries Each prince, in cafe of fcarcity, might prohibit the 



exportation of provifions. — The fifhermen on both fides might freely 



fifh in any part of the fea, without needing formal licences or fafe-con- 



duds, and, if driven by neceffity into any port on the oppofite coafl, 



they fhould be kindly treated, provided they paid the cuftomary dues, 



committed no fraud, and did no damage. — No corfairs fhould be allowed 



to fail from the ports of either prince to prey upon the fubjeds of the , 



other : neither fhould they be allowed to fell, or even to land, their plun- •# * 



der in any harbour, and the officers of any place, permitting fuch fale ^ 



or landing, fhould be bound to make compenfation to the party injured. 



Neutral veflels, carrying provifions or other merchandize from the ^ 



Eaft-country to the territories of either prince, fhould not be molefted *^ 

 by the fubjeds of the other. — Merchant vefTels, driven into port by 

 florms or enemies, fhould be kindly treated, but fliould not land any 

 merchandize without permiffion. — Mariners flionld be allowed in the 

 ports to fafien their veflels to the fhore. — The fubjeds of either prince 

 fhould not carry the property of the enemies of the other — VefTels •% 



ftranded or wrecked on either fhore, wherein a human creature, or even ' 

 a dog, cat, or cock, remained alive, fhould be preferved with their car- 

 goes as fafely as poffible, and reftored to the owners for a reafonable 

 falvage. — The road from Calais to Gravelings fhould be kept up ; the 

 Englifh fliould have inns or hotels, with all their former privileges, in 

 the towns of Brabant, Flanders, and Mechlin ; and the merchants of 

 thofe countries fhould have the like in England — The treaty fliould not 

 be infringed for the adlion of any individual. — Laftly, the four members 

 of Flanders fliould bind themlelves to preferve the treaty inviolate on 

 their part. \Fcedera^ V. xi, p. 591.] 



1468, June — The clothiers in Norfolk and Suffolk having got into a 

 pradice of making their cloths, called fet cloths, very deficient in length, 



we fee (andyi'f/) the race of depretiation, though piofpciity. But the very fame men do not blulh 



by different means, proceeding with a moll Jeftruc- to alk, and receive, an augmentation of emolu- 



tlve career, and men, who affume the charaflcr of ments, drawn from the necelTities oftiiofe who arc 



pliilofophical pohticians, holding up that very de- finking under the depretiation, to fliield themfelves 



pretiation as a triumphant evidence of national from the baneful effefts of their boafted profperitv- 



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